Elizabeth Hurley Brings the Quotes of the Day
August 26, 2010 in Celebrity Quotes, Elizabeth Hurley by Versus
Elizabeth Hurley, who once said ‘I’d kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe’… wants to share a bit of body and diet info with you via her Twitter:
Super healthy lunch:salmon, grilled courgettes,green beans and salad-all veg picked by me ten minutes ago. Smug, moi?
about 3 hours ago via webMugs of hot water first thing, maybe an espresso and a few oat cakes mid morning.
8:32 PM Aug 24th via webBtw my diet survived the onslaught of phenomenal vacation food-doctors disagree, but I swear by almost nothing for breakfast for adults.
8:31 PM Aug 24th via webI read that I’ve just had breast implants-happy to report still au naturel but I do wear exceptionally well cut bikinis….
6:06 PM Aug 23rd via web
interesting. though marilyn monroe wasn’t fat.
Hurley is obviously a moron.
Marylin Monroe was probably THINNER then her for most of her career.
37-23-36 (Studio’s Claim); 35-22-35 (Dressmaker’s Claim)
marilyn was a size 4 by todays standards. she wasnt fat at all!!
Completely true, Marilyn was very thin for most of her career. At the very start, she was probably a US size 6 or UK 10, but later she was a size 4 or UK 8.
Only thing about her measurements…. And i’ve read this on several Marilyn trivia sites over the years.
The 37-23-36 claim was a lie. Marilyn’s PR team reported that her waist measurement was smaller than it really was, and padded out her bust and hip measurements, because it was fashionable at the time. Her real measurements were more likely to be something like 36 – 24 – 35.
Forgot to add this…. Marilyn was very slim, and didn’t have huge hips like some people have come to imagine that she had…. Look at her here:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.thecampussocialite.com/monroenip.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.thecampussocialite.com/accidental-superstars-part-i/&usg=__JsJCa35WQpOE1shg0-uh4fpd4jw=&h=768&w=1024&sz=255&hl=en&start=32&sig2=inwcGGnfwq2T6Ld9ERlk9Q&zoom=1&tbnid=qz5iIhFeYRG4UM:&tbnh=136&tbnw=188&ei=3Mh6TP2gIMuQswbKveSyDQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmarilyn%2Bmonroe%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1090%26bih%3D461%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C634&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=156&oei=0sh6TNaZMcOOswb3oLiyDQ&esq=4&page=3&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:32&tx=137&ty=125&biw=1090&bih=461
No matter whatever is her size…….
She is a Gr8 BED performer & i dunno Y that stupid GAY Nayar divorced her.
If wud have been her husband,then she wud have lOve 2 b @ bed.
not eating breakfast is for 20-something college kids, lady. grow up.
celebs need to be more careful about what they say.
to not eat breakfast is poor eating in my opinion.
While skipping breakfast won’t kill you, I think in the long run it is healthier. As highly as you think of yourself, Elizabeth, you are not a doctor who has been studying nutrition for the past 20-30 years. If they say eating breakfast is better, then I’m gonna go with them.
Besides, I don’t know about you but I work in the morning. I find myself a lot crankier when I don’t have a nice, full breakfast.
I think in the long run it is healthier
to eat breakfast, I mean
lol right, its very easy for her to say skipping breakfast is beneficial when she doesnt work like us mere mortals. I cant go to work where I am on my feet all the time moving constantly without eating breakfast, I’d faint. scrambled egg whites and toast every morning
and I love it and I’m thinner than ms hurley but then maybe thats coz I do other things than just apply my makeup and put on fancy clothes haha 
Just being light-hearted but you know what I mean.
“and I love it and I’m thinner than ms hurley but then maybe thats coz I do other things than just apply my makeup and put on fancy clothes haha”
LOL! Same here. Probably because I haven’t screwed up my metabolism by only having 1000 calories a day!
i never eat bfast. I always have frozen pb with nuts mixed in instead. much more healthy and filling.
that’s still eating, whether you call it breakfast or not.
I have a tendancy to oversleep so I often skip breakfast and it does me no favours. I usually end up having snacks late morning instead and feel hungrier during the rest of the day. Luckily people at my office stock cereal here so I can now have breakfast when I come in.
Is she doing anything that is worthwhile and/or relevant or is she just mindlessly Twittering?
Actually, i’m not pretty sure how fat exactly Marilyn Monroe was, but from photos I’ve seen, Marilyn looks not much ”bigger” than Hurley in this photo..
They’re about the same in my opinion, except Marilyn had more feminine looking body.
I know, I’ve even seen pictures and videos of Marilyn where she looked super thin. Before she died she had her gallbladder removed and was very thin. Don’t know if was because of medical issues though. In this video she looks like she weighs barely over 100 lbs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X46URbjqSaw
wow! she’s so thin. Not a size 12-14 like she was once famous for
Actually that is a size 12-14 back then.
It’s equivalent to a 2-4 now.
Oh that’s so interesting. I guess her figure measurements make sense now
Because women who are a size 12-14 are not even close to her small measurements
Yeah, I have never understood why she’s always been promoted as a size 14 by todays standards. If she was back then, then it must be as suzushii says the size equivalent of a UK 8 or maybe a UK 10.
If you watch Gentlemen Prefer Blondes you’ll see that she was very slim. Even when she gained weight by The Prince and the Showgirl she was probably a UK 12 max.
she did fluctuate, not to he extremes that people waffle on about tho. probably at her biggest in Some like it hot. But that was all well after she was famous, like very other young starlet she needed to be thin to make it. its such a myth if you actually watch old films, that they weren’t equally as slim back then as they are now. silhouettes, along with the mad underwear, has changed over the years, but thin has always had a place in fashion.
Marilyn was much softer than Liz Hurley is, but I think Marilyn has a muuuuch smaller waist. I don’t know who she thinks she’s kidding. (Lis HUrley that is).
The ‘I’d kill myself if i was as fat as Marilyn Monroe’ comment is years old – perhaps even ten years, from back when Elizabeth Hurley WAS actually very, very thin. Before she had a baby in the Austin Powers days. She is also ten years older than Marilyn Monroe was when she died. When she made that comment she was around the same age..
good to know, thanks for the context
maybe that’s why she looks drained all the time and has to wear heavy makeup to try to hide it. i personally think if she actually ate a healthy breakfast and didn’t deprive herself, she would a lot nicer than she does now. marilyn monroe was never fat.
It is healthier to eat breakfast, but when it comes to eating less during the day it does work (for me) to skip breakfast…I guess it is different for each person!But I do end up eating less in the other meals when I don´t eat breakfast..
And Marylin Monroe wasn´t fat (this society´s idea of what is fat and skinny gets crazier every day..and unfortunately I´m no exception)!
I am the same way!! I know everyone says it’s healthier to eat breakfast, but I almost always feel that the more I eat for breakfast (healthy or not), the more I eat throughout the day.
me too! I’m like pringles “once you pop you just can’t stop”. I don’t start eating until 2-3pm
Me three! I’ve done some research on this and it’s a phenomenon called te warrior lifestyle. I won’t go into details you can google it but when you eat a big meal first thing in the morning it can actually make you hungrier later because food wets your appetite for me at least. And eating all that food actually slows me down throughout the day. Food digesting makes me sleepy and sluggish. I find if I eat light througt the day like fruit veggies and nuts then eat my main meal in the evening my food digests better I dnt overeat and I dnt crash during the day. I know most peopleswear by mini meals for your metabolism me and friends have found that mini are not satisfying and I begun to obsess aboutfound wat to eat how much every 3 hours and as a recovering bulimic it triggers me to binge and feel horrible about myself. And I’ve always found that the3 square meals a day was too much food for my system. This is my opinion buy I personally the media feeds into the eating all day mentality and shuns the one main
meal because imagine if everyone stopped eating 3 meals a day. What that would do to the american snack and food industry?
Ok, let’s forget about the american food and snack industry.
when you DON’T eat a full breakfast your system sends and emergency call because it has nowhere to get energy from. So it starts getting it from your muscles.
During the day you’ll feel normal, but then at night you’ll eat anything you can because you’re just so hungry.. and you need carbs.. But your body doesn’t work the same way in the night as it does in the morning. So all the carbs you eat turn into fat.. which goes directly to massive storage – fat cells. And, moreover, your muscles get weaker by the day because this “morning starvation (that’s when you don’t get enough food for breakfast)” consumes the proteins from your muscles because there’s just not enought food to get energy..
It’s a study.. it’s true.. and it’s much healthier to eat breakfast, then having mini-snacks through the day (but made of veggies and fruits and healthy things) and by night you won’t feel hungry.. and your body won’t be consuming itself to get some “fuel”…
No offense, Ginger, but you are obviously just repeating bits and pieces of what you’ve heard and read. That doesn’t make it true. Quiet frankly, your science is wrong. Skipping a breakfast doesn’t suddenly make your body start eating its own muscles. Let’s not be dramatic. FACT: Your body is constantly burning fuel. Sometimes it’s burning the food you’re digesting, other times, it’s breaking down fat AND muscle tissues. IT’S OK. It rebuilds those tissues too. If someone feels better all day by skipping breakfast, it won’t hurt them to do so.
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Like I said it’s what works for me and my nutrisionist and therapist agree that it’s what works best for me. I don’t eat anything at night after holding back at day. If anything it hives me a chance to really feel hunger so I get satiated even faster. My main meal is full of carbs protein veggies even dessert! And since I’m nit eating too late I even get to digest it. I sleep peacefully at night because I’m not hungry or full. And it’s helped me maintain a weight of 118 at 5’6
I’m recovering from the lesser known Bulimiarexia and everything you said there I understand/go through! Happy someone else understands as I feel uncomfortable explaining what I believe are my new healthy eating habits it to family/friends.
I Know right? I don’t even try to explain to people most of the time because then they. Jump all over me for not being healthy and relapsing lol. Popular. Belief is different from what may actaully work for a lot of people. Our bodies weren’t meant to eat all day. They’re meant for sustained. Labor and then feast and then hibernating! Lol all my opinions but if you’d like to research look up warrior diet. Once you read the science it makes sense btw not promoting the diet but I started this way of eating and then wanted to research if it was bad for me and found this info
Aarika,
I agree with you that not everyone benefits the same way from things that are determined to be healthy like eating breakfast.
I’m also glad that you are enjoying the warrior diet, and have found benefits from it.
HOWEVER, I do have to point out that the warrior diet is not science. The warrior diet has it’s own research published, which has not bee replicated by independent nutrition journals, nor peer-reviewed journals.
While the warrior diet makes sense in theory, because cave people did used to eat like that, what they fail to mention is that cave people tended to die at age 15-20 thanks to malnutrition. In addition, the effects of settling down and cultivating have changed human beings and their nutritional needs.
As a doctor once said, we as a people today have more options for healthy eating than our ancestors ever had. Now we can eat a large variety of things instead of waiting to find them or have them be in season. The only problem that plagues is today is overeating.
Omg I am a journalism/English major and I cannot believe how many typos I have. My professors would be horified. Damn iPhone lol
This is exhausting. I mean I don’t just eat anything ie treating my body like a garbage disposal and not hives * gives lol ahhhh
I’m exactly the same, my dad is too.
there’s an interesting theory around intermittent fasting, particularly ‘eat stop eat’. The studies behind it basically blows the whole ‘you have to have breakfast to be healthy/keep your metabolism going’ apart. The diet and supplement industry wants us to eat regularly and give us rules/diets so we buy books and register for diet programs. The rule eat every 3 hours crap is the funniest.
“almost nothing for breakfast for adults”, and can she back that blanket statement up with research or even some sort of degree that would make her a legitimate source for nutritional advice?
Personally, I never eat breakfast, because I am just not hungry in the mornings, and I never have been (since childhood), but everyone is different and in general, plenty of evidence points to the benefits of breakfast!
What a dumb vacuous skank. How awful it would be to look like marilyn moneroe, my god, you might as well not live.
marilyn was so much prettier
This woman has annoyed me for years. There have been plenty of moronic statements issued by her. I still remember when she was walking around sucking on a baby pacifier after quitting smoking.
What’s wrong with that? Other than looking like a ecstasy-riddled kandi kid circa 1999.
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geez!! she sounds so obnoxious !! the fact that she calls the most iconic beauty fat is degrading.. Woman aren’t suppose to be a size zero, they were made to have a curvy figure.. thanks to narrow minded celebrities like her, young woman feel pressure to look like a twelve year old boy.
uh oh, get ready for a barrage of ‘women come in all shapes in sizes, not just curvy’ (and I agree!). Case in point, Heidi Montag is extremely curvy, but I would never call her a woman! She acts like a child, talks like a child and thinks like a child…Curves do not equal womanhood
“uh oh, get ready for a barrage of ‘women come in all shapes in sizes”
You guessed right (!) and I’m on that band wagon because it’s true; women DO come in all shapes and sizes.
Granted I don’t think Nessa was actually targetting slims curveless women but rather emphasising the ridicule in Hurley’s statement, though with an uncareful selection of words…
Actually Im A Size 00-0, Yet I Still Have Curves & Don´t Look Like A Twelve Year Old Boy! I Am Very Small Structed & Have A Tiny Waist Etc… So You Can´t Really Generalize That Everyone Who Is A Size 0 Are Stick Thin & Have No Curves.
Pot, meet kettle.
Some women are a size 0. Some women are a size 10 and their body is as straight as a board, no curves whatsoever.
They are both women. For you to suggest that they are not women, and that they look like 12 year old boys, is a lot more obnoxious than what Elizabeth said.
well we have obnoxious people in real life who don’t understand that women exist in all shapes and sizes. ugh sometimes i get tired of saying the same thing because people fail to get that. women have body issues because of constantly getting bashed on for whatever it is. being too thin or too curvy. you never win huh?
WTF
i don’t like her appearance but her face and especially body look very good for 45 y.o. , so i guess her eating habits work for her but in general everyone is different of course what “heals” one can “kill” the other , i mean she’s good without breakfast and some people can’t without it….its all personal….
Agreed! People these days forget that nutrition isn’t black and white. What works for me might not work for you. Not everyone needs to eat breakfast to be healthy or in shape!
Well, she must be sneaking in some cookies or have awful genes, because that sounds like the same diet Rachel Zoe is on. To eat like she does, I would expect her to be much thinner, no? She always striked me as one of the more unfriendly celebrities, these twitters help to prove that…
she’s really pretty and maybe what she does works for her. But she shouldn’t obsess over what she eats
Who is this kid?
Well to say Marilyn Monroe is fat is just awful. In todays sizes I would say Marilyn Monroe was a size 2. Elizabeth looks to be around a size 8 she looks to have gained weight and carrys her weight in her thighs. She probably sneaks alot of junk food and doesn’t tell anyone. Yeah she looks ok for 45 but I am 44 and 5’5 and 110 and I have two eggo waffles every morning!! lol
Actually She Was Not A Size 2! She Was Quite A Large Woman (Although Slim) http://www.marilynmonroepages.com/facts.html
It states she had a size 12 dress size (if its european it would be a size 8 US, but im pretty sure the size it states is US).
old sizes were very different to the current day sizes. Google pics of marilyn in a bikini – she was a slim woman and I would say about a 4 or maybe less depending on her height. People always forget then when they talk about her. Really look at pics of her, clothes on OR off, does she look like a 14?! Come on.
Not quite a 2. More like a 6 or 8.
5’5″ 118 lbs… That’s the same as me, and I’m a size 4.
Well, Elizabeth- I swear by eating breakfast to stop me being cranky and to have energy. But hey, what do medically trained professionals know?
Personally, breakfast is a MUST for me. Sometimes it’s my biggest meal of the day, and the way I look at it, I have the whole day to burn it off- if I eat a lot at dinner then I feel too full and don’t do much in the evenings to burn it off. Breakfast is goood, give it a go Liz!
Marilyn monroe was fat? Yeh right.. she’s been dead for so long and everyone still adores her and she is still THE Goddess. I doubt people will even remember this poor wannabee even a day after she dies and why would they? What does this low educated woman have that is worth remembering? She looks like the rest of hollywood with that annoying tan and brown hair with blonde highlights. Not to mention a face as average as it gets.
That thing she said about Marilyn was just stupid, i bet the one and only fans she might have had lost all their respect for her with that line.
totally agree
Wow. What a twit. Marilyn was not only drop dead gorgeous, she was (according to her dressmaker) 32-22-35, 5′ 51/2″ and 118 lbs. Her pant size was between an 8 and a 12 and we all know what vanity sizing is these days, right?
As for Hurley, she is known for losing baby weight by restricting to 900 calories a day. I’m not going to argue and say everyone should eat breakfast, cause I don’t believe that. I think one should learn to listen to their body and what it needs. I certainly don’t eat as soon as I get up (plus I usually hit the gym) so why eat if I’m not hungry?
Anyway…point is she’s full of herself and after these last comments I could care less what she says or believes.
lol… ok. I get that breakfast right away might turn some people’s stomachs. That’s fine; I don’t like to eat RIGHT away, but to skip it entirely? Might work if you’re like her and have nothing to do all day, but some of us have things to do.
I agree. I cant eat breakfast, I just can’t. I always feel nauseaous in the morning and I just don’t get hungry until around noon. It’s the way my body has always been. But I’m not about to go and suggest women everywhere to disregard a universally accepted medical truth.
Ok first a size 12 in the 50′s is NOT today’s size 12, it’s today’s size 16/18
Second- she said it’s not Dr reccommended and that it’s what SHE does, in no way does she claim to be a prof. Liz is known for being an extreme/ dangerous dieter. After she had her son she locked herself in Elton Johns houuse and ate nothing but oat crisps…. My point is she is not trying to pass of her opinion and her routine as med advice.
She’s twittering it where she has thousands of followers and saying she “swears” by it. Whether it was intentional or not, she IS passing her opinion as diet advice/tips.
Marilyn s WAY more attractive than Elizabeth Hurley.. that was a pretty ridiculous comment
You can starve yourself all you want Elizabeth, but that still won’t cure the ugly. Both inside AND outside.
Well, I’d kill myself if I was as stupid and arrogant as Elizabeth Hurley.
I really hope people don’t listen to what this woman says. She’s obviously got some issues.
Dumb skinny biatch who’s desperately grasping for validation that she’s still “got it”.
About the breakfast thing – I find it helps if I don’t eat a huge breakfast immediately after waking up, but to do some light exercise for around 30 mins and then have a healthy breakfast of fruit and cereal. If I eat immediately and have a huge breakfast as well I get really bloated and uncomfortable, plus I get hungry faster.
Umm, ok, maybe that works for her who doesn’t have to get up early in the morning. I personally get up at 6 and it is vital for me to eat something because I feel hunger in the morning and if I didn’t eat I would faint. Besides, it would be hard to work with an empty stomach until 12, when the lunch begins.
But I guess some people just don’t feel hungry right after they get up. So it makes sense they don’t eat.
As for Liz, she’s pathetic. Not because she skips breakfast. She has a poor nutrition, and obviously consumes too little calories on a daily basis. This leads to a screwed up metabolism. Not to mention that metabolism gets slower as the time goes. Poor woman, starvation is her lifestyle
I faint if I don’t have breakfast, so I wouldn’t recommend it^^
me2..
She has time to be twittering her diet plan?
This woman is jobless
I could care less if she eas breakfast or not. This woman hasn’t worked in a long time, she is irrelevant. And to say that Marilyn was fat, is completely ridiculous, she was one of the most beautiful women in the world, and is still idolized sooo long after her death. Too bad Elizabeth will never be half the woman Marilyn was.
I dunno… If she said she’d kill herself if she were as fat as Marilyn, and she “swears by” not eating breakfast, she might have a bit of an eating disorder. I mean, it sounds like distorted body image to say that Marilyn was fat when she was in fact the equivalent of a US size 4 and a UK size 8 back then.
I’m a recovering anorexic, and when I was in the lowest low of my disorder, I saw Marilyn as fat too, because my perception was distorted. I thought Brigitte Bardot had a good waist but was too big in the hips and I though Audrey Hepburn was “almost” perfect. That’s how distorted I was. It’s a common thing in the ED world to say that Marilyn is fat actually. She’s sometimes used as reverse “thinspiration”, believe it or not.
I’m so glad my perception is going back to normal and I can appreciate her for how great of a body she really had back then!
She’s talking sh!t, and clearly knows nothing about nutrition! I can’t believe she has the audacity to think her messed up “No breakfast” diet plan is the right way, and that doctors are wrong. Liz, have a long hard chat with a dietician!
I’m glad she’s at least honest that she eats unhealthily to maintain her look (previously she has said she eats only one meal a day.) It makes a change from all the BS artists claiming to ‘eat like a pig’ and have a naturally fast metabolism, lol!